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‘AFRICA’S GREAT GREEN WALL’ – A SHALOM PERSPECTIVE | Society of African Missions Home News SMA Structures SMA Houses SMA Parishes Dromantine Conference Centre SMA Districts and Provinces SMA Africa About Us Contact Us Justice Laity Resources Family Tree Programme Climate Justice – Thumbprint resources JUSTICE BRIEFINGS Muslim Christian Dialogue Sunday Homilies Search Society of African Missions Home News SMA Structures SMA Houses SMA Parishes Dromantine Conference Centre SMA Districts and Provinces SMA Africa About Us Contact Us Justice Laity Resources Family Tree Programme Climate Justice – Thumbprint resources JUSTICE BRIEFINGS Muslim Christian Dialogue Sunday Homilies Home Africa ‘AFRICA’S GREAT GREEN WALL’ – A SHALOM PERSPECTIVE AfricaNews ‘AFRICA’S GREAT GREEN WALL’ – A SHALOM PERSPECTIVE September 25, 2018 SMA Communications Officer, Don Mullan, introduces Africa'sUnconfinedGreen Wall to Pope Francis By Esther Kibe, MA, Shalom Communication Office, Nairobi, Kenya.   ‘AFRICA’S GREAT GREEN WALL’; THE DREAM BECOMING REALITY HAS COMMENCED. WHERE? The southern perimeter of the Sahara Desert; a 15 km deep configuration of trees and supportive cultivation stretching 8000 km from Senegal in the west to Djibouti in the east. A part of the African Map showing theUnconfinedGreen Wall running from Senegal to Djibouti, is reproduced below. TheUnconfinedGreen Wall for the Sahara and the Sahel Initiative (GGWSSI) is an African Project launched in 2008 by the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), and the African Union (AU). An epic and a unconfined symbol of hope that runs wideness thirteen nations in the continent is aimed at providing: security, food, jobs and a future for the millions of people who live in a region on the front line of climate change. This objective will be achieved through tackling the detrimental social, economic and environmental impacts of land ousting and desertification in the region. The UNCCD and the AU endeavor to partner with variegated nations and organizations in the unveiling of the initiative. Shalom (SCCRR) is once engaged in the process; it has the peace-development expertise, practitioners and transferral in word and deed to play a key role in this essential human and environmental security project. Recently, the Irish Government has wilt involved, engaging moreover with the “Laudato Tree Project” in Ireland initiated by the SMA, and commendably propagated, in particular by Mr. Don Mullan. While some nations and people of good will have risen to the tampering and logistical interventions required for theUnconfinedGreen Wall in Africa, increasingly need to do so. Shalom (SCCRR) through its interventions in Africa, and the significant presentations and lectures by Fr. Patrick Devine on issues of mismatch transformation, peacebuilding, environmental security, religious ideological extremism, interreligious dia-praxis, integral human development, etc., continues to champion this African Dream (for example, see the vendible unelevated by Dr. Gladys Ganiel, Queens University Belfast). His affirmative sponsorship with Ministers Joe McHugh and Denis Naughten, stimulative the Irish Government to respond positively to the United Nations invitation requesting Ireland to prefer an international leadership role in promoting theUnconfinedGreen Wall, has been publicly acknowledged. Africa’sUnconfinedGreen Wall Shalom thanks the Irish Government for the positive response in respect to its belief, leadership, strategy and investment in the future of this remarkable continent and its people. Recently, at the 19th AMECEA Plenary Assembly, attended by approximately 400 key influential religious, peace and minutiae actors, hosted at the United Nations Center in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Fr. Patrick emphasized not only the urgent need but moreover the profound life-giving merits of the initiative. He stressed that the project deserves their urgent partnership and that of the global community. The outgoing Secretary General of AMECEA, Fr Ferdinand Lugonzo, in expressing his appreciation, said the inputs of Fr. Devine to the Plenary Assembly were very enlightening because, “they were fact based, and the substantial links bridging the philosophical underpinnings of ‘environmental security’, ‘Laudato SI’ and the ‘Great Green Wall’ were emphasized”. Concerning his overall presentation he said it “helped AMECEA to think of ways through which they could requite touchable response to the conflicts experienced in many of the member countries”. According to Fr. Devine, “theUnconfinedGreen Wall needs single-minded and visionary leadership at local, national, regional, continental and global levels. The involvement of pure project centered advocates and qualified peace and minutiae practitioners at management level is of hair-trigger importance. Even though the possible pitfalls and threats are many, consider the implications of the failure to rise to this rencontre for Africa and the wider world! On the other hand imagine the magnanimous benefits for the nobility of humanity and the environment! Shalom (SCCRR) is wool in its conviction that this emerging new “Wonder of the World” will help write the root causes of environmental degradation, climate change, war, poverty, internally displaced persons, migrants, and refugees, among others, throughout Africa and beyond. It is an embryonic foundation of hope for achieving sustainable peace and minutiae in Africa and beyond. Most of Africa’s problems need to be primarily transformed on the ground by competent and defended Africans who have patriotism evident from the grassroots up. It is interesting and laudable, that it is predominantly the women of West Africa who are giving lineage and weaning the project’s dream to reality. International Aid should take note, as far too often some motives can seem to have other agendas or are somewhat internally driven by the need of organization’s own resilience needs and those managing them! The motivation going forward must be guided by a mindset of addressing root causes as unshared from persistently just peekaboo to recurrent symptoms. In this regard, the “peace-development-human security nexus” is the key framework to be unromantic to the empirical wringer of theUnconfinedGreen Wall context problems, and the project’s vision. It is the fundamental understructure for ensuring interventions are enlightened, structured, and strategically implemented. Furthermore, to stave the overly present danger of an ignorance of swellheadedness and an swellheadedness of ignorance, a modus operandi of dia-praxis needs to pervade the interactions of governance, policy makers, specializations, practitioners, as they embrace the wisdom of local communities. The up-surge to ‘Africa’sUnconfinedGreen Wall ‘continues; a wonder of life and eyeful unfolding”. “Salaam-Shalom, Shalom-Salaam!” TO READ DR. GLADYS GANIEL’S ARTICLE ON THE GREAT GREEN WALL, PLEASE CLICK HERE.   TAGSAfrican UnionAUEsther Kibe MAGGWSSIGreat Green WallIrish GovernmentLaudato Tree ProjectShalomSMAUNCCD Facebook Twitter Google+ Pinterest WhatsApp Previous articleCongolese Catholics pressure Kabila into submissionNext article26th Sunday in Ordinary Time 2018 – Year B Don African Missionary, Spring/Summer 2018, No 31 [ Preview ] [ View/Download PDF ] 12345678 More... 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